Mon. 1/27/14 4:04pm
Matt from Springfield:
Sorry to hear Kitty! Hopefully you get to see them at some point.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:06pm
Cheri Pi:
RTD, HIPAA law states that you need not reveal your POLFS status unless pressed violently by a mob to do so.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:06pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:
Aye, Fred, that was a very expensive 2 hours. But such treasures... Mid-80s Laylah-label experimental stuff, Goblin reissues -- it was like a total blackout of spending frenzy. I'll be living on crackers & tap-water for decades...

Mon. 1/27/14 4:16pm
Green Mountain Man Mark:
The whole reason why astronauts went to the moon was because public demand wanted them to go to find out for sure the moon was not made of cheese. Popular belief at the time. Imagine harvesting all of that cheese if the moon was really made of cheese. When the astronauts arrived they dug into the moon only to find dirt and rock. No cheese. But yet again they were not on the dark side of the moon.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:20pm
lumpy:
Thanks GMMM, that explains why Switzerland so profusely protested the lunar landing mission. That could have wrecked their cheese industry. I'm thinking that the science at the time had the moon made of Swiss cheese.

Hey, speaking of celestial bodies, did anyone hear about the rock on Mars that magically showed up in a photo and disappeared again the next photo?

Mon. 1/27/14 4:26pm
Andrew Waterloo:
I think I just completely zoned out listening to this Schnitzler track

Mon. 1/27/14 4:28pm
Matt from Springfield:
A German restaurant should make a new, experimental schnitzel for each day...and call it Conradschnitzle.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:29pm
holed-up memories:
Carmichael They still haven't figured out where the rock came from, it didn't dissapear again though, they studied it and found many times higher than average (magnesium?). They want to claim it was tossed by a crashed comet but I would think the rover would have vibration sensors that would have recorded the impact....

Mon. 1/27/14 4:31pm
P-90:
@whoo's_lumpy: that was a thoughtful and completely credible discussion of the Apollo missions, the cheese issue, etc. Until you mention "protest by the Swiss". That's one thing that I'm pretty certain never actually happened, check your facts please.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:33pm
lunarcycle moma:
Ha P-90. I always wondered how the Swiss got up there to make that big ball of cheese in the first place.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:34pm
Matt from Springfield:
@P-90: WFMU's comment board fact-checker is the Ghost of Hunter S. Thompson, so we don't have much connection with reality.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:36pm
fleep:
They found my lucky rock? I *knew* I left it someplace.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:37pm
Matt from Springfield:
I'm sure that Joe Frank story will be his typical ball of Paul Harveyesque inspiration!

Mon. 1/27/14 4:38pm
I.K.E. (Ice King Enterprises):
Speaking of cheese, that ocean of auditory limburger smegma by Judas Priest chased me away for a while. It's been quite a while since Scott played something that compelled me to go off and cheat on WFMU with WPRB for a few minutes. Ha! But that's free-form for ya! Gotta love it.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:41pm
βrian:
I've been known to have a roll in the hay with WCBN, myself.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:42pm
Whoa Nelly:
Fleep. Judging from the upcoming Joe Frank plot description, it sounds like he is using my life for his story. I feel I am owed some royalties.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:43pm
Scott Williams:
Ohhh Ikey!! How I miss your very frank appraisals of the WFMU air schedule!

Mon. 1/27/14 4:43pm
Green Mountain Man Mark:
If mannequins could sing and play instruments this would be what it sounds like.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:44pm
Dr. Raul:
Now hear this and get it right the first time, everyone. If you want your goddamn facts checked, check 'em yourselves or wait until after Happy Hour is over. That is all. I mean ALL.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:45pm
Ike:
Ha ha Scott, I've learned about this thing called diplomacy since then! I sure was a mouthy bastard in the 90s!

Mon. 1/27/14 4:46pm
fleep:
Whooda, Joe Frank uses everybody he knows for his stories. He's a story vampire, and listening to word voodoo is like baring your neck.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:50pm
P-9Ø:
"Buster and Glen" might be my numero uno fave Residents.
-Actually, it was rereleased as an LP with another 7 incher, "Duck Stab", so if that counts a single album, it's my sentimental fave of their entire oeuvre.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:51pm
over-heated underwear:
Fleep I can't figure out exactly what it is about Joe Frank that I find so engrossing but he certainly is one hell of a story teller.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:51pm
Nat the Parker:
Joe Frank tells the ur-story, the myth of one thousand heroes, and if it bears resemblence to any of our lives then it only means we are doing something right. Scott great show so far! Diggin those Residents

Mon. 1/27/14 4:52pm
bloopy:
Anyone watch the Grammys?

Mon. 1/27/14 4:53pm
P-9Ø:
It's Joe's humanity that makes him special.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:54pm
blinded by bright lights:
Bloopy all I want to know about the Grammies is who looked the most disappointed at losing. I treat award shows like watching NASCAR. I'm only interested in the train wrecks.

Mon. 1/27/14 4:57pm
Andrew Waterloo:
I only find it interesting when a really popular artist wins and it turns out nobody on Twitter has ever heard of them.

Mon. 1/27/14 5:12pm
P-9Ø:
Wasn't Aki Onda the movie in which Jon Voight was regurgitated by a large reptile?

Mon. 1/27/14 5:13pm
Ike:
Ken has played Lorde and then randomly speculated that I would criticize him for it, which was an honor of sorts, but wrong. I actually love Lorde's #1 hit "Royals" for ripping on the materialism of much of mainstream hip-hop. And it's catchy.

Mon. 1/27/14 5:14pm
P-9Ø:
Charlotte Rampling

Mon. 1/27/14 5:15pm
P-9Ø:
(Yum)

Mon. 1/27/14 5:15pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:
Ike: Funny. I saw that band/person/etc name mentioned quite a bit during the twitter storm last night but have no idea what they/he/she is. Long live the generation gap! Whee!

Mon. 1/27/14 5:17pm
P-9Ø:
Rev Turnip: It appears to be two big acts that have merged, a kind of supergroup

Mon. 1/27/14 5:17pm
Scott Williams:
Ohhh, "Royals"? Yeah, I like that one

Mon. 1/27/14 5:19pm
Matt from Springfield:
Same here Scott and Ike.
And same there, Scott: I don't know why any of these pop stars are stars, but play the hook of their One Song Being Played Everywhere and I can match a star to a song.

Mon. 1/27/14 5:21pm
Ike:
I have a reverse generation gap situation, RTD. When I visit my parents lately, they're listening to top-40! (?!!!) I blame their YMCA aerobics classes. (Pseu plays some of it on her show too.) I'm surprised to find some decent songs on the top-40 now. Nothing I imagine you'd like much, RTD, but Lorde actually has character.

Mon. 1/27/14 5:21pm
P-9Ø:
Oh, Lorde? sorry, thought the topic was still "daft pink".
Hard to keep up sometimes, multitasking a challenge when this is one of the tasks

Mon. 1/27/14 5:21pm
Matt from Springfield:
Like this, it's a WFMU pop hit! It *oughta* be a hit everywhere..

Mon. 1/27/14 5:23pm
Matt from Springfield:
CLICK ON THROUGH! TO THE OTHER SIIIIIIDEE!!!
<Oh man, what was I ON?!>

Mon. 1/27/14 5:23pm
Carmichael:
I played Can for my kids just the other day. Figure they owe me, after all that Disney channel brain draining.

Mon. 1/27/14 5:24pm
P-9Ø:
@fleep: Yeah! Thanks. Go Puddles

Mon. 1/27/14 5:24pm
Matt from Springfield:
And I AM disappointed--Jethro Tull hasn't won a Best Heavy Metal Grammy since the first year of that award!! C'mon judges, how bout "Jethro Tull Essential"??!!

Mon. 1/27/14 5:30pm
bloopy:
btw the rock section of the Grammys was the most abysmal thing ever..rubbish tunes by remaining Sabbath, beatles, stones members etc. #vomit. also kris kristofferson was up there performing with a guitar but not actually playing the guitar, just sort of fondling it. willie nelson looked half asleep etc. it was a horror show!!!

Mon. 1/27/14 5:30pm
Nat the Parker:
whooo!

Mon. 1/27/14 5:30pm
Scott Williams:
dunno much abt the diz it kidz, but that Ariana Grande seems to making big ol waves. she seems funny & smart, but a goddawful singer

Mon. 1/27/14 5:37pm
P-9Ø:
@Disney Stars: and Debby's version of "Santa Baby" was to DIE for

Mon. 1/27/14 5:37pm
Ike:
@Bloopy, Willie Nelson often has that blank look lately. He had it on Bill Maher's show the other night, too. Hmm. I say legalize it, but it's not 100% harmless. Don't totally smoke your brains out!

Mon. 1/27/14 5:38pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:
Matt: I was introduced to the CAN comp. CANNIBALISM at about age 11, and went straight for the track AUMGN, and obsessed like a beast over it for months. At that age, or any age, how could one NOT obsess like a beast over it?

Mon. 1/27/14 5:40pm
fleep:
Willie is 80 now, he can be forgiven for a few blank looks.

Mon. 1/27/14 5:41pm
Matt from Springfield:
@RTD: Young minds are still in development, there's plenty of masterful classics that I wouldn't have (or even didn't at the time) like around 11-13. It takes many years to find greatness on your own, and then to make the mental connections to other things that are great for the same reasons.

Mon. 1/27/14 5:41pm
Mike East:
@Matt - Now that I see the pic, I recognize her from what I believe is a spinoff of iCarly, the thought of which makes me ill.

Mon. 1/27/14 5:42pm
P-9Ø:
@Carm: good call on Stereolab.
The Turtles will eternally appeal to kids

Mon. 1/27/14 5:44pm
Mike East:
and, no, her acting is terrible...par for nickelodeon. What's the deal with the laugh track after literally every two lines of dialogue?

Mon. 1/27/14 5:44pm
P-9Ø:
Alvaro sounded like David Thomas from Pere Ubu for just a second there

Mon. 1/27/14 5:46pm
Carmichael:
When you have the time, google the Turtles' whiteboard review of their career, complete with arrows and circles. It was one of the funnier rock-related stories this side of Spinal Tap.

Mon. 1/27/14 5:46pm
Matt from Springfield:
Oh yeah, and last week...I took the "Frankie Teardrop" Challenge!

That is a masterful classic, but OH GAWD the sing-whisper-SCREAMING!! That track leaves physical effects, even without infrasound!

Mon. 1/27/14 5:46pm
P-9Ø:
Mike: Lets the kids know what's supposed to be funny. Don't you remember Get Smart or The Ropers? Same deal

Mon. 1/27/14 5:47pm
Matt from Springfield:
OTOH, those who haven't listened to the whole track should take their first listen under Challenge circumstances, to appreciate the true terror of the production :)

Mon. 1/27/14 5:48pm
Mike East:
@P90 - I remember those, but I don't remember the laugh track going off nearly as much as on these shows.

Mon. 1/27/14 5:51pm
Parq:
The flip side of nowadays is that there are some shows -- Parks and Rec comes to mind right off the bat -- that get along with no laugh track or studio audience at all. Kind of gratifying to those of us who remember when Tony Randall and Jack Klugman had to plead with ABC to let them do one episode that way.

Mon. 1/27/14 5:54pm
fleep:
The overcranked laugh tracks are a training technique. In conjunction with hypersugary breakfast cereals, young impressionable minds are brought into Disneyology and Disneyetics.

Mon. 1/27/14 5:54pm
P-9Ø:
Yay! Verbal! my new #1

Mon. 1/27/14 5:54pm
Ike:
Sadly, @Parq, Parks & Rec (and Community) gets very dismal ratings and has somehow nonetheless survived anyway, perhaps due to demographics or the political power of Lorne Michaels within NBC, or more likely because NBC is pathetic and simply didn't have anything else. Great show, though it suffered severe growing pains. (Y'all should Netflix it, but skip straight to season 2!)